"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."

“Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.”

Source : "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On ​​Being Stereotyped, ​​His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.”

“I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

“DOLCE & Gabbana is like my and Domenico Dolce's child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!”

“My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive,”

Source : "David Miscavige: A cult figure in the fame game" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

“I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.”

“Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.”

“In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.”